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Ten minutes a day makes you an artist.

Not talent. Habit. The simple supplies that make it easy to draw every day, plus a fresh prompt each time you open this page.

The kit (taped in)

Start with the first four. Everything after is for when you're hooked.

Thick paper that takes pencil, ink and light marker without bleeding through.

→ the daily habit lives here

Hard 2H for light sketch lines, soft 4B–8B for deep shadows. That range is the whole trick.

→ 2H to 8B range

Squish it to a point to lift highlights. It works more like a drawing tool than an eraser.

→ draws light back in

Waterproof ink in several tip sizes for confident lines and inking over pencil.

→ commit to the line

Smooth, blendable color for illustration and character art. Start with a skin-tone and gray set.

→ when you want color

Pressure-sensitive pen for digital art, with undo. A screenless tablet is the budget way in.

→ going digital

Trace and refine a rough sketch onto a clean sheet. Every comic artist has one.

→ clean final lines

Pose it to figure out tricky angles and figure drawing poses.

→ anatomy helper

Set a timer, draw it, then mark the day. Your streak is saved in this browser only.

0-day streak